diff --git a/common/src/main/java/org/astraea/common/backup/RecordWriterBuilder.java b/common/src/main/java/org/astraea/common/backup/RecordWriterBuilder.java
index c084e7d1c..7e5070c0e 100644
--- a/common/src/main/java/org/astraea/common/backup/RecordWriterBuilder.java
+++ b/common/src/main/java/org/astraea/common/backup/RecordWriterBuilder.java
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
 
 import com.google.protobuf.ByteString;
 import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
-import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong;
@@ -119,8 +118,17 @@ public void close() {
     this.fs = outputStream;
   }
 
-  public RecordWriterBuilder compression() throws IOException {
-    this.fs = new GZIPOutputStream(this.fs);
+  public RecordWriterBuilder compression(String type) {
+    switch (type) {
+      case "gzip":
+        this.fs = Utils.packException(() -> new GZIPOutputStream(this.fs));
+        break;
+      case "none":
+        // do nothing.
+        break;
+      default:
+        throw new IllegalArgumentException("unsupported compression type: " + type);
+    }
     return this;
   }
 
diff --git a/connector/src/main/java/org/astraea/connector/backup/Exporter.java b/connector/src/main/java/org/astraea/connector/backup/Exporter.java
index 28980e2c7..855320ec1 100644
--- a/connector/src/main/java/org/astraea/connector/backup/Exporter.java
+++ b/connector/src/main/java/org/astraea/connector/backup/Exporter.java
@@ -134,6 +134,15 @@ public class Exporter extends SinkConnector {
                   + "backups of a particular topic or topic partition. it can be used in 2 ways: "
                   + "'<topic>.offset.from' or '<topic>.<partition>.offset.from'.")
           .build();
+
+  static String COMPRESSION_TYPE_DEFAULT = "none";
+  static Definition COMPRESSION_TYPE_KEY =
+      Definition.builder()
+          .name("compression.type")
+          .type(Definition.Type.STRING)
+          .documentation("a value that can specify the compression type.")
+          .defaultValue(COMPRESSION_TYPE_DEFAULT)
+          .build();
   private Configuration configs;
 
   @Override
@@ -162,7 +171,8 @@ protected List<Definition> definitions() {
         PATH_KEY,
         SIZE_KEY,
         OVERRIDE_KEY,
-        BUFFER_SIZE_KEY);
+        BUFFER_SIZE_KEY,
+        COMPRESSION_TYPE_KEY);
   }
 
   public static class Task extends SinkTask {
@@ -183,6 +193,7 @@ public static class Task extends SinkTask {
     String path;
     DataSize size;
     long interval;
+    String compressionType;
 
     // a map of <Topic, <Partition, Offset>>
     private final Map<String, Map<String, Long>> offsetForTopicPartition = new HashMap<>();
@@ -199,6 +210,7 @@ RecordWriter createRecordWriter(TopicPartition tp, long offset) {
       return RecordWriter.builder(
               fs.write(
                   String.join("/", path, tp.topic(), String.valueOf(tp.partition()), fileName)))
+          .compression(this.compressionType)
           .build();
     }
 
@@ -299,6 +311,11 @@ protected void init(Configuration configuration, SinkTaskContext context) {
               .orElse(BUFFER_SIZE_DEFAULT)
               .bytes();
       this.taskContext = context;
+      this.compressionType =
+          configuration
+              .string(COMPRESSION_TYPE_KEY.name())
+              .orElse(COMPRESSION_TYPE_DEFAULT)
+              .toLowerCase();
 
       // fetches key-value pairs from the configuration's variable matching the regular expression
       // '.*offset.from', updates the values of 'offsetForTopic' or 'offsetForTopicPartition' based
diff --git a/connector/src/test/java/org/astraea/connector/backup/ExporterTest.java b/connector/src/test/java/org/astraea/connector/backup/ExporterTest.java
index 6a2799005..28e8d14de 100644
--- a/connector/src/test/java/org/astraea/connector/backup/ExporterTest.java
+++ b/connector/src/test/java/org/astraea/connector/backup/ExporterTest.java
@@ -777,6 +777,7 @@ void testCreateRecordWriter() {
       var task = new Exporter.Task();
       task.fs = FileSystem.of("hdfs", new Configuration(configs));
       task.interval = 1000;
+      task.compressionType = "none";
 
       RecordWriter recordWriter = task.createRecordWriter(tp, offset);
 
@@ -841,6 +842,7 @@ void testWriteRecords() {
 
       var task = new Exporter.Task();
       task.fs = FileSystem.of("hdfs", new Configuration(configs));
+      task.compressionType = "none";
       task.size = DataSize.of("100MB");
       task.bufferSize.reset();
       task.recordsQueue.add(
@@ -950,4 +952,67 @@ void testIsValid() {
       Assertions.assertEquals(1, task.seekOffset.size());
     }
   }
+
+  @Test
+  void testCompression() {
+    try (var server = HdfsServer.local()) {
+      var fileSize = "500Byte";
+      var topicName = Utils.randomString(10);
+
+      var task = new Exporter.Task();
+      var configs =
+          Map.of(
+              "fs.schema",
+              "hdfs",
+              "topics",
+              topicName,
+              "fs.hdfs.hostname",
+              String.valueOf(server.hostname()),
+              "fs.hdfs.port",
+              String.valueOf(server.port()),
+              "fs.hdfs.user",
+              String.valueOf(server.user()),
+              "path",
+              "/" + fileSize,
+              "size",
+              fileSize,
+              "fs.hdfs.override.dfs.client.use.datanode.hostname",
+              "true",
+              "compression.type",
+              "gzip");
+
+      task.start(configs);
+
+      var records =
+          List.of(
+              Record.builder()
+                  .topic(topicName)
+                  .key("test".getBytes())
+                  .value("test value".getBytes())
+                  .partition(0)
+                  .offset(0)
+                  .timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis())
+                  .build(),
+              Record.builder()
+                  .topic(topicName)
+                  .key("test".getBytes())
+                  .value("test value".getBytes())
+                  .partition(0)
+                  .offset(1)
+                  .timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis())
+                  .build());
+
+      task.put(records);
+
+      Utils.sleep(Duration.ofMillis(1000));
+
+      task.close();
+      var fs = FileSystem.of("hdfs", new Configuration(configs));
+
+      var input = fs.read("/" + String.join("/", fileSize, topicName, "0/0"));
+
+      Assertions.assertArrayEquals(
+          new byte[] {(byte) 0x1f, (byte) 0x8b}, Utils.packException(() -> input.readNBytes(2)));
+    }
+  }
 }